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Sep 11, 2019 · Attending to ongoing debates about the “meaning of life” in Ecclesiastes, this article determines how Qoheleth addressed meaningfulness by drawing on a threefold scheme of definitions for life’s meaning.
- Arthur Keefer
- 2019
Understood on its terms, Ecclesiastes is about making sense of life in light of the certainty of death and the uncertainties of life (3:1–15). It is the product of an investigation into human life based on Qoheleth’s personal experiences and observations.
May 12, 2020 · Qoheleth was primarily concerned with life’s “coherence,” which depends on predictable and reliable patterns in life that render it sensible, yet he also addressed life’s “purpose” and “significance.”
Sep 11, 2019 · Qoheleth was primarily concerned with life’s “coherence,” which depends on predictable and reliable patterns in life that render it sensible, yet he also addressed life’s “purpose” and “significance.”
In the first place, if life is as Qohelet describes it-as enigmatic and fleeting, most often frustrating, uncertain, incomprehensible, beyond human control, and subject to evil-then it makes...
The direction of this interpretive essay suggests that Qoheleth's stance to- ward life has been clouded by commentators unable to break out of their alien (to Qoheleth) work-dominated mind-sets.
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